Stan Hoeppner:
> Matthias Andree put forth on 11/18/2010 4:23 AM:
> > Am 18.11.2010 01:28, schrieb Stan Hoeppner:
> >> Subject:
> >> =?iso-8859-1?Q?Le_invitamos_a_asistir_a_la_Presentaci=F3n_de_la_Oportunid?=
> >>
> >> =?iso-8859-1?Q?ad_de_negocio_en_ACN_Marketing_y_Servicios_de_Telecomunica?=
> >> =?iso-8859-1?Q?ciones?=
> >>
> >> Does anyone have a header_checks pcre that would allow me to reject or
> >> discard any email with an encoded subject such as, but not limited to,
> >> that above. I.e. non plain text?
> >>
> >> I can't recall ever receiving legit email with an encoded subject, only
> >> spam.
> >
> > Oh, then why does your mailer encode your mail body as ISO-8859-1? I
> > might argue that only spam would contain that. Your mail body does not
> > bear any non-ASCII characters.
>
> Maybe I'm using the wrong terminology, or not explaining my case clearly.
>
> > What I mean is that it's not spam because it's encoded. I've seen KOI8-R
> > declared on legit pure-ASCII mail, and it wasn't spam. Not to say I
> > have seen lots of broken mailers that get MIME encoding wrong. It's
> > subtle enough that many software packages break in corner cases.
>
> What I mean is that all email I receive that has the contents of the
> Subject: header encoded is spam. You may be misunderstanding my logic
> here. At this site, we have no correspondence with non-English language
> composing senders. The fact that the Subject: header lines are encoded
> probably has much more to do with the email being composed in a language
> that requires special characters. This in itself does not make an email
> spam. But the fact that we don't receive legit mail composed in
> non-English languages does make it spam. For instance, I recently
> received spam in Spanish and Cyrillic, through two different hacked
> webmail accounts in two countries, Spain and Russia, both with encoded
> Subject: headers.
>
> Does my motivation here make more sense now?
It makes sense when you never exchange email with people outside
the US-ASCII and EBCDIC world. I suppose that covers people across
the USA, and/or people who use dynosaur systems.
Wietse
